Illusion proverbs

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◆ Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

- Sigmund Freud99

◆ A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

- Saul Bellow99

◆ I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

- Alan Wilson Watts99

◆ Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ All problems are illusions of the mind.

- Eckhart Tolle99

◆ You're a dream. Like everything else.

- Kelly Creagh99

◆ How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.

- Kevin Brockmeier99

◆ But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

- Gabriel Garcí-a Márquez99

◆ One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion

- Voltaire99

◆ There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

- Vera Nazarian99

◆ Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.

- Allan Lokos99

◆ Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.

- Kasie West99

◆ In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.

- Criss Jami99

◆ There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

- Judy Garland99